Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White

Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White (1884 – 9 September 1924) was an English classicist, Egyptologist, Coptologist and archaeologist.

Life Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White was born in Ipswich in 1884. He was the son of the antiquarian, Charles Harold Evelyn-White, and his wife, Charlotte Reid. He shot himself in a taxi after the preceding suicide of a romantic interest.

Selected publications

Crum, W. E., & Evelyn-White, H. G. (1926). The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes/Pt. 2 Coptic ostraca and papyri/ed. with translations and commentaries by WE Crum. The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Evelyn White, H. G. (1920). The Egyptian Expedition 1916-1919: IV. The Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 34–39.